JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Wealthy Lesotho businessman Sam Matekane and his Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party won the most seats in the parliament elections beginning last week, but it failed to get the majority needed to form a separate government, the Electoral Commission in Lesotho said later on Monday.
The RFP party became the single biggest party with 56 seats in the kingdom's 120-member parliament in the elections, it needs to enlist the support of other parties to form a new government.
In Lesotho's electoral system, 80 seats are allocated in first-past-the-post constituency elections, and a further 40 proportional representation seats are allocated according to how many votes parties win nationally. These 40 seats are only calculated after the 80 constituency seats have been allocated. ■